2016 OSAP Dental Infection Control Boot Camp FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES

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1 Eve Cuny, MS Ms. Eve Cuny is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety and Associate Professor in the Department of Dental Practice at Pacific Dugoni School of Dentistry. Ms. Cuny is a consultant to the American Dental Association Council on Scientific Affairs and is a member of the National Occupational Research Agenda Council. She has served as an expert reviewer and advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and is past chairperson of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP). Ms. Cuny has lectured extensively on infection control and safety in dentistry and has published numerous articles and textbook chapters on the topic. She is co-author of the World Health Organization s guide to infection control in oral health care. In 2009, she received OSAP s Dr. James J. Crawford Award for lifetime achievement in dental infection control. Ms. Cuny has worked with numerous government agencies and non-profit organizations to educate dental practitioners about best practices in dental infection control throughout the world, including Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. She is also involved in the development of policies and best practices for risk management, patient safety and sustainability. Matthew Crist, MD, MPH Dr. Matthew Crist serves as a Medical Officer on the Quality Standards & Safety Team in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Crist is originally from Mt. Holly, NC. He attended Duke University for his undergraduate education and received his medical degree and masters of public health degree from the University of North Carolina. He is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases having completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Virginia and infectious diseases fellowship training at Vanderbilt University. Before joining CDC in August 2015 Dr. Crist worked at the Tennessee Department of Health in the HAI and Antibiotic Stewardship Program, and then served as the Director of the HAI and Respiratory Disease Unit at the Georgia Department of Public Health, and subsequently as the HAI Section Director at the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Kathy Eklund, RDH, MHP Ms. Kathy Eklund is the Director of Occupational Health and Safety, and Research Subject and Patient Safety Advocate at the Forsyth Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is an adjunct associate professor at the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene and adjunct faculty at the Mount Ida College School of Dental Hygiene, where she teaches senior level courses in oral health research and evidence-based decision making. Ms. Eklund volunteers and works with a number of professional organizations. She is a past Chair of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention, served as Secretary of the OSAP Foundation and currently is Secretary for the Executive Board of OSAP. She serves as faculty for the New England AIDS Education and Training Center (NEAETC) and HIVdent.org. Ms. Eklund has received several national professional recognition awards. Ms. Eklund has published articles and contributed to several texts and educational learning modules on infection prevention and control. She is one of the authors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Guidelines for Infection Control In Dental Health-Care Settings Ms. Eklund lectures nationally and internationally on infection prevention and control. She has practiced clinical dental hygiene in private practice and institutional settings since 1975.

2 Hudson Garrett PhD, MSN, MPH, FNP-BC, CSRN, VA-BC, CDONA, FACDONA, DON-CLTC, C-NAC, PLNC Dr. Garrett is Vice President, Clinical Affairs for PDI and Nice-Pak, and is responsible for the global Clinical Affairs program and also the Medical Science Liaison program for all divisions within the company. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Chemistry and Nursing, a dual Masters in Nursing and Public Health, a Post-Masters Certificate as a Family Nurse Practitioner, a Post-Masters Certificate in Infection Prevention and Infection Control, and a PhD in Healthcare Administration and Policy. He has completed the Johns Hopkins Fellows Program in Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, and the CDC Fundamentals of Healthcare Epidemiology program. He is board certified in family practice, critical care, vascular access, moderate sedation, legal nurse consulting, and as a director of nursing in long term care. He is also a Fellow in the Academy of National Associations of Directors of Nursing Administration in Long Term Care. He currently serves as the Editor-In-Chief for two national journals and is on the Editorial Review Board for the OSAP publication Infection Control in Practice. Dr. Garrett also serves on the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Pediatric Subcommittee, as President of the Board of Directors, for the Vascular Access Certification Corporation, is the past Education Chair for the Greater Atlanta Chapter of the Association for Professionals In Infection Control and Epidemiology Board of Directors, a National Faculty Member for the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, President of the Board of Directors, for the SE Chapter of the Infusion Nurses Society, the Industry Liaison for the Board of Directors for the Association for the Healthcare Environment, a member of the Clinical Practices Advisory Committee for the Association for Vascular Access, and a past member of the Recommended Practices Advisory Board for the Association of Perioperative Registered Nurses. In addition, he received a Presidential Citation from the Society of Critical Care Medicine in Karen Gregory, RN Ms. Karen Gregory has over 20 years experience working in the outpatient environment, both at the front line delivering patient care and in the management arena. Being passionate about both employee and patient safety, she takes every possible opportunity to improve the quality of healthcare for all involved. She joined Total Medical Compliance in 2006 as Director of Compliance and Education where she is responsible for the development and supervision of compliance programs within the organization. Ms. Gregory is a requested speaker at local and state medical and dental meetings, including the Hinman Dental Meeting, Symposia and Infection Control Boot Camp Training Conferences of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention and annual conference of the American Association of Dental Assistants. She is on the Editorial Review Board for OSAP s Infection Control in Practice and is a frequent contributor of articles in local and state organizational newsletters and magazines. She was elected in 2013 to serve on the OSAP Board of Directors. Laurie Hicks, DO Dr. Lauri Hicks is a medical epidemiologist with the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases (NCEZID) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Prior to joining CDC, Dr. Hicks attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed her internal medicine residency and chief medicine residency at the University of Connecticut. In 2003, she joined the United States Public Health Service as a CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer with the Respiratory

3 Diseases Branch. During this period she investigated several respiratory disease outbreaks. This was followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in infectious diseases at Brown University. In 2007, Dr. Hicks returned to the Respiratory Diseases Branch at CDC to lead respiratory outbreak response and the Legionnaires disease program. In 2008, she also became the medical director for the Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work program, which is designed to improve antibiotic use in the community. In that role, she has fostered collaboration with the World Health Organization, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, and the European Union (EU) leading to an international annual observance to improve antibiotic use. Dr. Hicks has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and has guided national antibiotic stewardship policy and guideline development. In 2015, she became the director for CDC s new Office of Antibiotic Stewardship in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion to improve integration of stewardship across the spectrum of healthcare. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her areas of concentration include bacterial respiratory diseases, outbreak investigations, and antibiotic resistance and use. Brenda Joy, CD, BSc, DDS, MSc, FRCD Dr. Brenda Joy currently holds the position of Deputy Director Policy and Programs with the Directorate of Dental Services at the Canadian Forces Health Services Group Headquarters in Ottawa, Canada. In this role she is responsible for policy and program development and management including the quality assurance/improvement programs for the Royal Canadian Dental Corps. She graduated as a general dentist from the McGill University, Canada in 1987 and obtained her specialty training as a periodontist from University of Toronto, Canada in She is licensed to practice both general dentistry and periodontics in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Joy has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and has taught clinical periodontics in both the School of Dental Hygiene and undergraduate dental programs. In her career with the Canadian Armed Forces, Dr. Joy has served at several Canadian Forces Bases in Ontario and Quebec and has filled the command positions of Deputy Detachment Commander and Detachment Commander at the Regional Dental Specialty Care Centers at Canada s east and west coast naval bases. Dr. Joy is currently the Canadian Armed Forces representative on the Expert Panel of Dental Services for the Committee of the Chiefs of Military Medical Services in NATO and is the military representative on the Federal Dental Care Advisory Committee for the Public Health Agency of Canada. She is a member of a number of dental associations, including the Canadian Academy of Periodontology, the American Academy of Periodontology, the Canadian Dental Association, the Canadian Association of Public Health Dentistry and OSAP (Organization for Safety, Asepsis & Prevention). Michael Joseph, DDS, MSD Dr. Michael Joseph currently is the Chief, Dental Service, Huntington Veterans Administration (VA) Medical Center. He is one of the Dentistry Infection Control Consultants for the Veterans Health Administration Central Office.

4 Dr. Joseph is a graduate of West Virginia University School of Dentistry. Dr. Joseph received his periodontal training from Indiana University, and is Board Certified by the American Board of Periodontology. He maintained a private periodontal practice for six years before joining the Veterans Administration. Dr. Joseph also serves on the Editorial Review Board of Infection Control in Practice for the Organization for Safety, Asepsis, and Prevention. Michelle Junger, DDS, MPH Dr. Michele Junger is a Dental Officer in the Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia where she serves to provide public health recommendations and guidance on infection prevention and control in dental settings and on evidence-based oral health interventions, and provides technical assistance in the field of dental public health. Dr. Junger is a graduate of the University Of Michigan School Of Dentistry and the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, and she completed a Dental Public Health Residency and a Research Fellowship at CDC. After her training, she served as a Project Officer in the Health Resources and Services Administration s (HRSA) Bureau of Health Workforce, Division of Medicine and Dentistry. During her time at HRSA, she worked on multiple oral health workforce grant programs and cooperative agreements as a dental public health programmatic subject matter expert and managed grant processes from pre-funding through post-award. Kelli C. Mack, DDS Lt Col Kelli Mack is the Director of Professional Services at the USAF Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service (DECS). Lt Col Mack is the Infection Control and Patient Safety Consultant for the USAF Dental Service. Dr. Mack received her BS in Microbiology and her DDS from Howard University. She has practiced dentistry in the private sector, the Army Reserves and the Air Force Active Duty Corps. Lt Col Mack has completed a postgraduate fellowship in Patient Safety/Infection Prevention and Control at the Veterans Affairs Pittsburgh Health Center. Her duty locations have included Travis AFB, California; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Irwin, California; Kadena AB, Okinawa Japan and in July of 2013, she was assigned to the USAF Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Dr. Mack has been a part of organized dentistry for 19 years and has been responsible for the direct oversight of Dental Infection Prevention and Control programs for over eight years. Shannon Mills, DDS Dr. Shannon Mills is a graduate of Baylor College of Dentistry. He served from 1977 to 2005 as a dental officer in the United States Air Force. He completed a two year general dentistry residency at Wilford Hall US Air Force Medical Center and was certified by the American Board of General Dentistry. Dr Mills active duty assignments included the USAF Dental Investigation Service at the US Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine at Brooks Air Force, Base Texas, the Air Force Inspection Agency at Kirtland, Air Force Base, New Mexico, the Air Force Surgeon General s Office in Washington, DC and the Defense Medical Standardization Board at Fort Detrick, Maryland. Dr. Mills retired in the rank of colonel in 2005 and joined the faculty of the University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas as an Associate Professor in the Dental General Practice Residency. In 2007, Dr. Mills assumed the position of Vice President for Professional Relations and Science at Northeast Delta Dental in Concord, New Hampshire. Dr Mills is recognized internationally as an expert on infection control and safety in dentistry and has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers, review articles and research abstracts on this and

5 other topics. He has served as chair of the American National Standards Institute/American Dental Association (ADA) Standards Committee for Dental Products and the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention. He is a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American Dental Association and is a consultant to the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs. Anne Moorman, BSN, MPH Ms. Moorman is an Epidemiologist in the Division of Viral Hepatitis, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. Currently, she is one of the division staff leading investigation of healthcare-associated hepatitis infections and has helped develop current guidance on these investigations in partnership with state public health departments and colleagues in CDC s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, which can be found at Ms. Moorman has contributed to more than 80 scientific articles for peer-reviewed journals during her two decades at CDC, including over a dozen recent articles describing healthcare-associated hepatitis transmissions and outbreaks. She earned a BSN from UNC-Chapel Hill and an MPH from Emory University. Douglas Risk, DDS Col Doug Risk is the Director of the USAF Dental Evaluation and Consultation Service (DECS) which provides testing, evaluation, and consultative services on dental equipment, materials, infection control, patient safety, dental readiness and other items of interest to the Federal Dental Services. DECS also assists in resolving operational issues for in-garrison dental treatment facilities, expeditionary dental clinics and conducts special projects directed by the Air Force Medical Operations Agency. DECS provides research support to Masters-level post-graduate dental school residency programs and works with the US Army and US Navy research facilities on issues relevant to the needs of the federal dental services. Col Risk received his DDS from Georgetown School of Dentistry and completed the Air Force Advanced Education in General Dentistry 2-year program in He has commanded at the squadron and deputy Medical Group levels. He has been assigned to the Office of the Air Force Surgeon General and has been deployed to the Middle East in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. He is a past Air Force Consultant in Dental Infection Control, previously CIC, and is a diplomate of the American Board of General Dentistry. Arjun Srinivasan, MD, FSHEA CAPT Arjun Srinivasan is Associate Director for Healthcare Associated Infection Prevention Programs in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Before coming to CDC he was as Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Infectious Diseases Division at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine where he was the founding director of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Management Program and the associate hospital epidemiologist. His primary responsibilities include oversight and coordination of efforts to eliminate healthcare associated infections. His research and investigative areas of concentration include outbreak investigations, infection control, multi-drug resistant gram negative pathogens and antimicrobial use. In 2008, he assumed the medical directorship of a new CDC campaign called Get Smart for Healthcare which is designed to improve the use of antimicrobials in in-patient healthcare facilities. Dr. Srinivasan has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals on his research in healthcare epidemiology, infection control and

6 antimicrobial use and resistance. He is a member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the Infectious Diseases Society of America and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. Scott Trapp, DDS, MBA, MPH Dr. Scott Trapp is Chief of the Dental Service for the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) St. Louis Health Care System and one of two Infection Control Consultants for the Office of Dentistry responsible for providing expert advice to field operations related to the OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens Standard. He also serves as the VA representative to the American Dental Association s Standards Committee on Dental Products. Prior to joining the VHA, Dr. Trapp served as the Deputy Regional Administrator for the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Office Of Regional Operations in Kansas City and the Clinical Director and Chief Dental Officer at the Lawton Indian Hospital, in the Oklahoma City Area, Indian Health Service. Dr. Trapp has a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry and Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) from the University of Iowa with Master s degrees in Public Health (MPH) from the University of South Florida and Business Administration (MBA) from Creighton University. He is a member of the American and International Colleges of Dentistry. In addition to numerous PHS Awards, Dr. Trapp has received two IHS National Director s Awards for group performance and numerous IHS Area Director s Awards ranging from outstanding group performance to managerial excellence. Further, he was recognized by his peers with the Ernest Eugene Buell Award presented a dental officer who has made a significant contribution in oral health education, research or service. He has authored several professional papers, is a member of numerous professional organizations.